Fascinating origins of "to be". As usual to understand this kind of phenomenon, or at least start to build a theory, you have to go back quite far in history.

Interesting list and way to frame the problem. It's important to maintain this resource, an update is likely needed.

Let's not forget where we're coming from and why window managers tend to be merged with display server. It removes some complexity and some latency.

On the little known history of Lotus Notes. Crossed its path as a teenager during an internship at a bank. Can't say I remember it fondly though.

Yes there's a dip, but this piece presents compelling evidence that it's not the death of literacy we're sometimes screaming at. It is also a love letter to reading and writing.

This fantasy regularly comes back. Yet, the tools evolve, might improve some things but the core difficulties of programming don't change. At each hype cycle our industry over promises and under delivers, this is unnecessary.

Fascinating story about the little known Cantor big mistake. This also shows once more, that even though we like to put people on pedestals and look for a "lone genius" or a "hero", discoveries are always a process of several minds playing of each other.

This is an excellent piece if you like linguistics and its historical component. It shows quite well how much English changed over the centuries.

This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.

Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It's been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.

Nice retelling of the story behind WebAssembly.

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn't go away.

Fascinating story. Some people shouldn't be forgotten.

Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.

Interesting historical work. It indeed went through a fast paced evolution cycle.

Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?

Looks like that following parts were never written. This piece is interesting by itself though, it's nice to have a record of the early times of SCCS and RCS.

There is definitely something tragic at play here. As we're inundated in fake content, people are trying to find ways to detect when it's fake or not. While doing so we deny the humanity of some people because of their colonial past.

If you're wondering where emoticons and emojis are coming from, this is a nice little piece about that.

Interesting historical look at how and why modal editing appeared.